Not for ourselves alone are we born.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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